Amusement device



K. H. HAMILTON ET- AL AMUSEMENT DEVI 05 Filed June 14 1922- lNl/E/VTOP.MYE HOPE AM/L To.

CECIL IA HA EDNA V V- ArTaP EFS.

Patented Aug. 19, 1924.

r; STATES xAYE HOPE EAMILTQN AND CEGILIA Imminent, or SAN FRANCISCO,CALIFORNIA.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Application filed June 14, 1922. Serial No. 568,123.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, KAYE Horn HAM- ILTON and CEcILIA HARDMAN, citizensof the United States, residing at the city and county of San Franciscoand State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in I,Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an amusement device.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide an,amusement and educational device by which fortunes are supposed to betold and sentences formed,

which prophesies and sentences are obtained by chance and without thecontrol of the operator.

The present invention contemplates the use of a plurality of objects,the facets of which carry different inscriptions, which,

when appearing on the uppermost facets of the objects, will form asentence.

The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanyingdrawings, in

which:

Fig. 1 is a developed view of the facets of a pronoun die. 7

Fig. 2 is a developed view of the facets .of an auxiliary verb die.

Fig. 3 is a developed view of the facets of a verb die.

Fig. 4 is a developed View of the facets of a noun die.

Broadly considered, the invention contemplates the provision of .aplurality of dice or other objects havin words on their facets, the wordon each acet, considered with the word on one facet of each of the otherdice, forming a sentence by which the supposed fortune is indicated, orwhich words may be used to form sentences having value in educationalgames.

In order to carry out this invention, it is desirable to have one die,the facets of which'all carrythe same word, as indicated in Fig. 1,while any number of other dies are provided, the words on each die beingpreferably confined to acertain part of speech, as, for exam le, in thepresent case, verbs, auxiliary ver and nouns are used, and these, takenwith the pronoun on the first die, will form a simple sentence.

The pronoun as shown is the word you, although it will be understoodthat various considered collectively will carrying nouns has upon itsfacets the words love, money, offer, proposal, chance and invitation. Itwill be evident, therefore, that when the four dice are thrown out ont aplane surface, it will come to rest with certain facets uppermost, asfor example, the dice might come to rest with the words appearinguppermost: You might receive money.

It is evident that additional dice, or ther objects such as cards, tops,etc, might be used, providing additional classes of words, so that morecomplex sentences could be formed, and thus the interest and amusementincreased. I

While we have shown the preferred form of our invention, as now known tous, it will be understood that various changes might be made in thecombination, construction and arrangement of parts, by those skilled inthe art, without departing from the spirit of the invention, as claimed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. A11 amusement device comprising a plurality of dice, one ofsaiddicecarrying pronouns on its various facets, another carrying auxiliaryverbs onits various facets, another carrying nouns on its variousfacets, and another carrying verbs on its various facets, whereby oneword of a die considered collectively with-a word of each of the 7 otherdice will form a sentence.

2. A fortune telling game comprising dice, one of said dice having thesame pronoun inscribed on each of its facets, another of saiddice havinga different auxiliary verb inscribed on each of its facets, another ofthe dice having a different verb inscribed on each of its-facets, andanother of the dice having a different nouninscribed on each of itsfacets, wherebyone word of each dice form a complete sentence.

' KAYE HOPE HAMILTON. CECILliA HARDMAN.

